GSHP: Global database of soil hydraulic properties (Q11812)

A total of15,259 SWCCs from 2,702 sites were assembled from published literature and other sources, standardized, and quality-checked to obtain global database of soil hydraulic properties (GSHP). The GSHP database covers most regions across the globe, with the highest number of curves from North America followed by Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia/Oceania. In addition to SWCCs, other soil variables such as soil texture (12,233 measurements), bulk density (15,125 measurements), and soil organic carbon (2,255 measurements) are also listed in the database. The R code used for this study is available here:https://github.com/ETHZ-repositories/GSHP-database For more details / to cite this dataset please use: Gupta, S.,Papritz, A., Lehmann, P., Hengl, T., Bonetti, S., and Or, D., (2022): Global Soil Hydraulic Properties dataset based on legacy site observations and robust parameterization. Manuscript accepted to Scientific Data. Examples of using the GSHP databaseto generate van Genuchten parameters mapscan be found in10.5281/zenodo.6343570. Description of the files: The datasets in this repository include: WRC_dataset_surya_et_al_2021_finalprovides a global compilation of soil hydraulic properties and the information described inthe Readme_GSHP file.Dataset_notebookshows the graphical representation of the GSHP database. The study was supported by ETH Zurich (Grant ETH-18 18-1).